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Re: CVS permissions problem with network drive
"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
>
> The necessary right appears to be "Restore Files and Directories"
> (SeRestorePrivilege). At least the following did not work:
>
> host user cwilson: member of 'Power Users', no additional rights
> but this DID work:
> host user cwilson: membero of 'Power Users' + SeRestorePrivilege.
>
> (It's possible the necessary rights are SeRestorePrivilege + the rights
> granted by Power User status, as opposed to normal User).
>
Dadgummit. Looks like I spoke too soon. It is true that the preceeding
combination of rights will allow 'touch foo' to create a file with the
desired permissions (umask = 002 ---> -rw-rw-r-- foo) but I'm still
prevented from THEN doing a 'chmod 777 foo'.
> So: In order to access a CVS repository on an SMB share exported by an
> NT host, the user's account on the host must have the SeRestorePrivilege
> right. However, this is dangerous:
This is bull. Ignore.
--Chuck
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